I posted this last year with the title Coming Home To Roost.
Nothing has changed.
A long, long time ago I saw an Israeli woman interviewed by some significant American Media Source.
She was in her home.
That home, before 1948 had been the home of a Palestinian family.
There came a point where the interviewer asked the woman if she ever thought about something that would appear, on its face, to be a gross and unacceptable inequity: she was living in a beautiful Mediterranean home and the Palestinians to whom it had belonged pre-1948, were most likely in some refugee camp somewhere.
Or dead.
I have never forgotten her reply.
"Macht nichts; I've got mine".
A curtain to a slightly different view of the aftermath of the holocaust flashed open for me in that moment: the fact that much of the world, after Hitler shot himself in his bunker, had coalesced behind the Jewish people, enthusiastically and unconditionally, had, perhaps, unleashed a newer, slightly softer, form of genocide.
Leverage is everything, that new form believed.
And use it while you've got it.
Smart move.
Six million innocent human beings industrially exterminated is a horror that even today looms as number one in horror, human race to date.
There's a lot of leverage pent up in that horror.
But to see the survivors of that horror leveraging it into a shoulder-shrugged right to exterminate the Palestinians is a new form of that same old horror.
And I can't understand how the Jews can tolerate it.
Such as is my minimal influence, I won't tolerate it.
Moving beyond all of the rhetoric about how bad Hamas is - and I argue that not - one issue remains.
Starting in 1948 the Israelis have been pursuing a policy of the gradual elimination of the Palestinians.
And the policy is succeeding.
In the years since 1948, Israeli policy has inexorably reduced Palestinian living space.
The Israelis finally have most of the Palestinians crammed into a chunk of land bordered by the Mediterranean Sea, Egypt and Israel; the land measures twenty-five miles long by five miles wide; there are two million Palestinians in there; recently Israel ordered the half of that two million who live in the north to move to the south; then Israel started bombing the south.
But that's not all.
The Israelis have nudged a lot of Palestinians, over the years onto the left bank of the river Jordan.
That was ostensibly to give them some lebensraum; but really it was just a fish trap trick to get them concentrated somewhere so that the Israelis could move in violent thugs that they call "settlers" to illegally homestead, and in their spare time do raids to kill Palestinians.
The lady of the interview got her house because the Jews told the Palestinians who owned it to get out.
One wonders where those Palestinians went.
"Macht nichts".
Since 2000, or so, the Israelis have had another policy, parallel to the policy of Palestinian removal and relocation: allow a terrorist group (Hamas) to be an offset to the PLA.
Why would they do that?
Of course, I don't know, but I could argue that that policy is to permanently stymie a two-state solution, which, being the only solution, is a policy that totally precludes any solution; so removal and relocation, and now, elimination reign supreme in the chambers of Israeli policy.
Having a weak de jura government and a strong de facto alternate government - in opposition - makes serious discussion about creating a viable Palestine a nonstarter.
And not starting is and has seemed to have been a primary objective of Israeli policy.
For 75 years.
But allowing Hamas to exist has finally yielded catastrophic results for the Israeli government.
So, in reaction to the catastrophe, that government is reducing the Gaza Strip to rubble in pursuit of the goal of eliminating the terrorists.
But to do that they need to eliminate huge swathes of Palestinians.
"Macht nichts" says BiBi.
And if the world objects, the world is antisemitic (theme from Shindler's List commences).
Leverage is everything.
